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Ms Harre announced the goal of achieving of full employment for the country to a round of enthusiastic applause from the audience.

"The management of unemployment is a dead end street," she said.

"The solution does not lie in punishing the unemployed ... The solution lies in full employment."

If in government, internet Mana would spend $1.1 billon a year for the next five years to create short term jobs for young people, young single parents, people who have been unemployed for a long time and for students, Ms Harre said.

A specialised digital workforce would create 50,000 new permanent jobs in the next five years, she said.

"And this is all addition to our plans to reintroduce free tertiary education."

A programme to take away student loan debt would also be introduced, she said.

Ms Harre compared early governments' commitment to developing pastoral farming to Internet Mana's commitment to growing a digital workforce in New Zealand.

She said internet Mana would open the government up to public scrutiny.

She urged the audience to create a "true MMP government".

Internet Mana would start a campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, she said.

Annette Sykes was welcomed to the stage with a standing ovation from many members of the audience.

Ms Sykes said Hone Harawira had asked her to deliver the policy speech after he was in a car accident.

Mr Harawira had been asked to take it easy and would only be at the campaign launch for the later part, she said.

Ms Sykes said eliminating child poverty must be on the mind of the government, and asked how it could commit to backing Team New Zealand while children go hungry.

"We are abolishing charter schools and taking the money they're putting to charter schools and giving it to Kura Kaupapa Maori," she said.

Her speech had the audience cheering "kia ora" and stamping their feet.

She finished by announcing that Mr Harawira had arrived, and passing over to "our beloved leader" or "King Hone".

Mr Harawira gave a brief speech saying "our aim is to change the government."

He handed over to his son who stole the show with a freestyle rap about Internet Mana.

Mr Harawira said after the campaign launch he could be facing a charge of careless use of a vehicle for his car crash.

He said he lost control of a rental car on the Mangamuka Hills, flipped the car and ended up down a bank where the car landed on its roof.

"I'm very lucky to be alive," he said.

He said he was happy to have Ms Sykes deliver the speech for Mana.

"I'm really comfortable I have people like Annette, Laila, John Minto who can deliver the kaupapa."